Absolutes Quotes · Page 10

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

— Margaret Atwood

Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.

— Mahmud Shabistari

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This has always bothered me. If Change is the only constant how can we have absolutes?

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.

— Bhakti Charu Swami

Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones.

— Thomas Watson

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.

— Thomas Keneally

I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have…

— Irakli Okruashvili

White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

— Joan Mitchell

That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it…

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.

— Hrithik Roshan

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully…

— Malcolm Turnbull

If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.

— Catherine Brady

I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because…

— John Baird

I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And…

— Alice Walker

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned…

— Duff Goldman

No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter…

— J. C. Ryle

I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by…

— Sherrie Levine

Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making…

— Swami Vivekananda

Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both…

— Gerhard Richter

When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it... But...I do not venture to assume…

— Learned Hand

The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of…

— Maimonides

Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces…

— Dan Barker

Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security…

— Adyashanti

Here in the United States, the Zionists and their co-religionists have complete control of our government. For many reasons, too many and…

— Benjamin H. Freedman

All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this…

— Eric Hoffer

The pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more…

— Bruno Bauer

Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,…

— Woody Allen

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

— Berkeley Breathed

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

— Dario Argento

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

— Red Auerbach

“There is no such thing as 'your truth'. There is the truth and your opinion.”

— Ben Shapiro

Eva [Braun] wanted him [Adolf Hitler] to look his absolute best and he just didn't care.

— Gretl Braun

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

— Colleen McCullough

The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.

— Swami Vivekananda

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith